Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to the recently released World of Warcraft patch 5.4: Siege of Orgrimmar. Hotfixes are updates we make on our end without requiring you to download a new patch. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require your realm to be restarted to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. We will continue to update this list as additional hotfixes are applied.

[Requires a realm restart] Celestials in The Celestial Court will now only rotate their order after they have been defeated.

Time-Lost Shrines reactivate much more frequently now.

Proving Grounds

In Tanking trials, Sikari the Mistweaver's Crackling Jade Thunderstorm should now have a chance to break crowd-control effects that have a chance to break on damage.

September 16

Classes

Priest

Holy

Spirit of Redemption should no longer prevent Priests from getting the Sacrificed to Ordos debuff.

Creatures

Dread Ship Vazuvius should no longer be knocking players back after it has been defeated.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Siege of Orgrimmar

Spoils of Pandaria

Claw of Burning Anger now deals more damage.

Paragons of the Klaxxi

Fixed an issue where more than one player was able to obtain the Power of the Paragons buff from the same Paragon.

Garrosh Hellscream

Garrosh Hellscream should now properly drop three Tier-16 armor tokens in 25-player mode.

Please check this forum post for additional information on the hotfix.

Professions

Cooking

Fixed an issue where the new cooking recipes were only obtainable by characters with a cooking skill of exactly 525.

Items

Spark of Zandalar should now scale down correctly in Battlegrounds, Rated Battlegrounds, and Arenas.

September 13

Classes

Druid

Talents

Force of Nature Treant summoned by Restoration Druids should no longer die immediately after casting Swiftmend and Efflorescence.

Priest

Shadow

Landing a killing blow with Shadow Word: Death should no longer incorrectly grant 2 Shadow Orbs.

Warlocks

Destruction

Conflagrate now has a 15% chance to generate an additional Burning Ember.

Incinerate now has a 15% chance to generate an additional Burning Ember.

Talents

Soul Link is no longer incorrectly being applied to the second demon summoned through Grimoire of Service.

Quests

The Darnassus Mission: Players on this quest should no longer be placed into an incorrect phase when using Curious Bronze Timepiece from Journey to the Timeless Isle.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

The raid leader's boss progression in the raid instance now determines which bosses are still available when starting a Flexible Raid. Check out this forum post for a detailed explanation on the change.

Siege of Orgrimmar

Norushen

Purifying Lights now always spawn in the same locations on Flexible Raid difficulty.

Damage from Titanic Corruption's Hurl Corruption ability can now be absorbed by damage absorption shields.

Sha of Pride

Fixed an issue where players were able to obtain a second Titan Runestone from the Sha of Pride after having already received one on a different difficulty setting.

Galakras

Flames of Galakrond is now more responsive in detecting when it passes through a player and provides a a clearer visual as the flames decreases in severity.

Reduced the delay before Crates of Pandaren Relics may be opened on Flexible, Normal and Heroic difficulties.

Malkorok

Malkorok will now correctly apply Fatal Strikes on a tank even if they successfully dodge his melee attacks.

Kor'kron War Wolf's Dread Howl now works like a normal fear and can be removed or dispelled by non-self cast abilities. Self-cast abilities like Berserker Rage or Will of the Forsaken do not work at this time and will be addressed in a future patch.

Mistweaver Monks stunned with the Touch of Y'Shaarj affliction will no longer be impossible to hit due to Dematerialize.

Thok the Bloodthirsty

Fixed an issue where players can take damage from creatures that are still locked in their cage.

Garrosh Hellscream

Faith, Hope, and Courage effects no longer stack with each other while in the Realm of Y'Shaarj.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Rogues can no longer use Shadowstep on Antipersonnel Cannons in Strand of the Ancients.

Items

Effects for Legendary cloaks no longer activate while fighting against other players.

Timeless Isle

Fire-Watcher achievement now requires players to obtain 2,000 Bloody Coins as an Emissary of Ordos or Ordon Fire-Watcher (down from 10,000 Bloody Coins).

Players will now correctly receive credit for Big Bag of Herbs towards the Going To Need A Bigger Bag achievement.

Proving Grounds

Lava pools created by Illusionary Flamecallers should no longer damage Monk statues or Shaman totems.

September 12

Classes

Paladin

Talents

Evil is a Point of View should no longer incorrectly cause Turn Evil to affect targets that are immune to loss of control effects.

Priest

General

Prayer of Mending is now generating a heal and absorption shield for the correct amount when critically striking for a Discipline Priest.

Warlock

General

Fel Flame's mana cost has been increased by 100%.

Destruction

Incinerate's damage has been increased by 5%.

Quests

A Pandaren Legend: Lorewalker Cho should no longer confuse Worgen and Alliance Pandaren players as being part of the Horde while retelling their story.

A Time-Lost Treasure: This quest no longer has a faction requirement with Order of the Cloud Serpent.

The Path of the Mistwalker: Completing this daily quest now awards 250 reputation with the Emperor Shaohao faction. In addition, Southsea Plunderer and Southsea Lookout elites now award credit towards completing this quest.

The Temple of the Jade Serpent: Fixed an issue where players were unable to move after the cutscene.

Creatures

Ordos

Flame-Scarred Cache of Offerings now has a chance to award Flexible Raid quality items (up from Raid Finder quality.

Kor'kron related NPCs and creatures in Northern Barrens should be neutral to players below level 85 once more.

Highwind Albatross already carrying a player will no longer have its flight path interrupted when attacked by other players. Players who have been picked up by an Albatross can still interrupt its flight by attacking it.

Lil' Canny is back after a tune-up and is wandering around in the Shrine of Seven Stars once more.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Siege of Orgrimmar

Siegecrafter Blackfuse

Players standing on the conveyor belt should now be able to see Shockwave Missile and its damage effect regardless of the Shockwave Missile's position in the room.

Garrosh Hellscream

Farseer Wolf Rider can no longer be hit multiple times by the same Iron Star.

Kor'kron Warbringer can no longer deal critical strikes to players.

Items

Fixed an issue where many mana regeneration drinks was not regenerating mana.

For Death Knights, the Endurance of Niuzao effect from the Qian-Le legendary cloak should now activate before triggering Purgatory.

Timeless Isle

The Celestial Court spirit walls no longer close while engaging the Celestials.

Chests on the Timeless Isle now have a Level-90 requirement to open.

Reduced the chance for Burdens of Eternity to drop from Kukuru's Caches.

[Requires a realm restart] Celestials in The Celestial Court will now only rotate their order after they have been defeated.

Time-Lost Shrines reactivate much more frequently now.

Proving Grounds

In Tanking trials, Sikari the Mistweaver's Crackling Jade Thunderstorm should now have a chance to break crowd-control effects that have a chance to break on damage.

September 16

Classes

Priest

Holy

Spirit of Redemption should no longer prevent Priests from getting the Sacrificed to Ordos debuff.

Creatures

Dread Ship Vazuvius should no longer be knocking players back after it has been defeated.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Siege of Orgrimmar

Spoils of Pandaria

Claw of Burning Anger now deals more damage.

Paragons of the Klaxxi

Fixed an issue where more than one player was able to obtain the Power of the Paragons buff from the same Paragon.

Garrosh Hellscream

Garrosh Hellscream should now properly drop three Tier-16 armor tokens in 25-player mode.

Please check this forum post for additional information on the hotfix.

Professions

Cooking

Fixed an issue where the new cooking recipes were only obtainable by characters with a cooking skill of exactly 525.

Items

Spark of Zandalar should now scale down correctly in Battlegrounds, Rated Battlegrounds, and Arenas.

September 13

Classes

Druid

Talents

Force of Nature Treant summoned by Restoration Druids should no longer die immediately after casting Swiftmend and Efflorescence.

Priest

Shadow

Landing a killing blow with Shadow Word: Death should no longer incorrectly grant 2 Shadow Orbs.

Warlocks

Destruction

Conflagrate now has a 15% chance to generate an additional Burning Ember.

Incinerate now has a 15% chance to generate an additional Burning Ember.

Talents

Soul Link is no longer incorrectly being applied to the second demon summoned through Grimoire of Service.

Quests

The Darnassus Mission: Players on this quest should no longer be placed into an incorrect phase when using Curious Bronze Timepiece from Journey to the Timeless Isle.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

The raid leader's boss progression in the raid instance now determines which bosses are still available when starting a Flexible Raid. Check out this forum post for a detailed explanation on the change.

Siege of Orgrimmar

Norushen

Purifying Lights now always spawn in the same locations on Flexible Raid difficulty.

Damage from Titanic Corruption's Hurl Corruption ability can now be absorbed by damage absorption shields.

Sha of Pride

Fixed an issue where players were able to obtain a second Titan Runestone from the Sha of Pride after having already received one on a different difficulty setting.

Galakras

Flames of Galakrond is now more responsive in detecting when it passes through a player and provides a a clearer visual as the flames decreases in severity.

Reduced the delay before Crates of Pandaren Relics may be opened on Flexible, Normal and Heroic difficulties.

Malkorok

Malkorok will now correctly apply Fatal Strikes on a tank even if they successfully dodge his melee attacks.

Kor'kron War Wolf's Dread Howl now works like a normal fear and can be removed or dispelled by non-self cast abilities. Self-cast abilities like Berserker Rage or Will of the Forsaken do not work at this time and will be addressed in a future patch.

Mistweaver Monks stunned with the Touch of Y'Shaarj affliction will no longer be impossible to hit due to Dematerialize.

Thok the Bloodthirsty

Fixed an issue where players can take damage from creatures that are still locked in their cage.

Garrosh Hellscream

Faith, Hope, and Courage effects no longer stack with each other while in the Realm of Y'Shaarj.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Rogues can no longer use Shadowstep on Antipersonnel Cannons in Strand of the Ancients.

Items

Effects for Legendary cloaks no longer activate while fighting against other players.

Timeless Isle

Fire-Watcher achievement now requires players to obtain 2,000 Bloody Coins as an Emissary of Ordos or Ordon Fire-Watcher (down from 10,000 Bloody Coins).

Players will now correctly receive credit for Big Bag of Herbs towards the Going To Need A Bigger Bag achievement.

Proving Grounds

Lava pools created by Illusionary Flamecallers should no longer damage Monk statues or Shaman totems.

September 12

Classes

Paladin

Talents

Evil is a Point of View should no longer incorrectly cause Turn Evil to affect targets that are immune to loss of control effects.

Priest

General

Prayer of Mending is now generating a heal and absorption shield for the correct amount when critically striking for a Discipline Priest.

Warlock

General

Fel Flame's mana cost has been increased by 100%.

Destruction

Incinerate's damage has been increased by 5%.

Quests

A Pandaren Legend: Lorewalker Cho should no longer confuse Worgen and Alliance Pandaren players as being part of the Horde while retelling their story.

A Time-Lost Treasure: This quest no longer has a faction requirement with Order of the Cloud Serpent.

The Path of the Mistwalker: Completing this daily quest now awards 250 reputation with the Emperor Shaohao faction. In addition, Southsea Plunderer and Southsea Lookout elites now award credit towards completing this quest.

The Temple of the Jade Serpent: Fixed an issue where players were unable to move after the cutscene.

Creatures

Ordos

Flame-Scarred Cache of Offerings now has a chance to award Flexible Raid quality items (up from Raid Finder quality.

Kor'kron related NPCs and creatures in Northern Barrens should be neutral to players below level 85 once more.

Highwind Albatross already carrying a player will no longer have its flight path interrupted when attacked by other players. Players who have been picked up by an Albatross can still interrupt its flight by attacking it.

Lil' Canny is back after a tune-up and is wandering around in the Shrine of Seven Stars once more.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Siege of Orgrimmar

Siegecrafter Blackfuse

Players standing on the conveyor belt should now be able to see Shockwave Missile and its damage effect regardless of the Shockwave Missile's position in the room.

Garrosh Hellscream

Farseer Wolf Rider can no longer be hit multiple times by the same Iron Star.

Kor'kron Warbringer can no longer deal critical strikes to players.

Items

Fixed an issue where many mana regeneration drinks was not regenerating mana.

For Death Knights, the Endurance of Niuzao effect from the Qian-Le legendary cloak should now activate before triggering Purgatory.

Timeless Isle

The Celestial Court spirit walls no longer close while engaging the Celestials.

Chests on the Timeless Isle now have a Level-90 requirement to open.

Reduced the chance for Burdens of Eternity to drop from Kukuru's Caches.

Players in the Silent Sanctuary area in Vale of Eternal Blossoms should no longer be put into an incorrect phase.

Items that starts a quest with Tina Mudclaw should now be dropping at the appropriate friendship faction levels.

Fixed an issue where the Healer Proving Grounds had a chance to cause the realm to crash.

Hotfixes: Complete List

General

With the conclusion of the Battlefield: Barrens event, realm coalescing has been re-enabled for the Durotar area.

Classes

Druid

General

Nature's Grasp triggering Entangling Roots should no longer be incorrectly using up Nature's Swiftness.

Talents

Force of Nature Treant summoned by Restoration Druids should no longer die immediately after casting Swiftmend and Efflorescence.

Hunters

General

Deterrence should now correctly have a 5-second cooldown after using a charge for Hunters with the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimera talent.

Talents

Dire Beast should no longer summon snakes that were larger than usual while on the Timeless Isle.

Lynx Rush should now correctly apply its bleed effect against very large targets.

Mage

General

Blink modified by the Glyph of Rapid Displacement should no longer incorrectly free the Mage from stuns and bonds.

Fixed an issue where a Mana Gem modified by the Glyph of Loose Mana was restoring more mana than intended. The total amount of mana restored should now be the same as an unglyphed Mana Gem.

Monks

Talents

Xuen summoned by Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger should now be able to use Crackling Tiger Lightning against Aberration type creatures.

Paladin

Talents

Evil is a Point of View should no longer incorrectly cause Turn Evil to affect targets that are immune to loss of control effects.

Priest

General

Prayer of Mending is now generating a heal and absorption shield for the correct amount when critically striking for a Discipline Priest.

Holy

Spirit of Redemption should no longer prevent Priests from getting the Sacrificed to Ordos debuff.

Shadow

Landing a killing blow with Shadow Word: Death should no longer incorrectly grant 2 Shadow Orbs.

Talents

Cascade should no longer hit PvP enabled players if the Priest is not PvP enabled.

Rogue

Combat

Killing Spree's range is no longer being incorrectly modified by Blade Flurry.

Shaman

Glyphs

Glyph of Chain Lightning should now be properly reducing the damage of Chain Lightning.

Warlock

General

Fel Flame's mana cost has been increased by 100%.

Destruction

Conflagrate now has a 15% chance to generate an additional Burning Ember.

Incinerate now has a 15% chance to generate an additional Burning Ember.

Incinerate's damage has been increased by 5%.

Talents

Soul Link is no longer incorrectly being applied to the second demon summoned through Grimoire of Service.

Warrior

Glyphs

Glyph of Victory Rush should now properly increase the total healing provided by Victory Rush.

Quests

A Change of Command: The gate leading to High Marshal Twinbraid at Lion's Landing should now be open, allowing Horde characters to complete the quest.

A Pandaren Legend: Lorewalker Cho should no longer confuse Worgen and Alliance Pandaren players as being part of the Horde while retelling their story.

A Time-Lost Treasure: This quest no longer has a faction requirement with Order of the Cloud Serpent.

A Vision in Time: Fixed an issue where the music wasn't playing correctly after using Vision of Time.

Ace in the Hole: Fixed an issue preventing players from being able to complete the quest.

Bad Feeling, Worse Result: Players are now able to use the Lin Family Scroll to resummon the Ghost of Lin Da-Gu.

The Darnassus Mission: Players on this quest should no longer be placed into an incorrect phase when using Curious Bronze Timepiece from Journey to the Timeless Isle.

The Path of the Mistwalker: Completing this daily quest now awards 250 reputation with the Emperor Shaohao faction. In addition, Southsea Plunderer and Southsea Lookout elites now award credit towards completing this quest.

The Temple of the Jade Serpent: Fixed an issue where players were unable to move after the cutscene.

When Death is Not Enough: Fixed an issue preventing players from being able to complete the quest.

Creatures

Ordos

Flame-Scarred Cache of Offerings now has a chance to award Flexible Raid quality items (up from Raid Finder quality.

Rare creatures in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms should now follow the correct tapping mechanics.

Burning Berserkers and Eternal Kilnmasters no longer use Fiery Charge on targets who are not in combat.

Cursed Hozen Swabby now has a 2-second cooldown on their Rusty Shank ability.

Dread Ship Vazuvius should no longer be knocking players back after it has been defeated.

Dread Ship Vazuvius now deals less damage with its Cannon Barrage, the range of its knockback ability has been reduced, and can apply its Eerie Fog effect more readily.

Highwind Albatross already carrying a player will no longer have its flight path interrupted when attacked by other players. Players who have been picked up by an Albatross can still interrupt its flight by attacking it.

Kor'kron related NPCs and creatures in Northern Barrens should be neutral to players below level 85 once more.

Lil' Canny is back after a tune-up and is wandering around in the Shrine of Seven Stars once more.

Nomi should now have the correct conversation text for players on the appropriate reputation level.

Zarhym should now properly despawn after a player has started the event to search for his body.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Siege of Orgrimmar

The raid leader's boss progression in the raid instance now determines which bosses are still available when starting a Flexible Raid. Check out this forum post for a detailed explanation on the change.

Mages and Warlocks now have a chance to obtain Gaze of Arrogance (Sha of Pride) and Lever of the Megantholithic Apparatus (Siegecrafter Blackfuse) through bonus rolls on Normal difficulty.

Malkorok will now correctly apply Fatal Strikes on a tank even if they successfully dodge his melee attacks.

Kor'kron War Wolf's Dread Howl now works like a normal fear and can be removed or dispelled by non-self cast abilities. Self-cast abilities like Berserker Rage or Will of the Forsaken do not work at this time and will be addressed in a future patch.

Mistweaver Monks stunned with the Touch of Y'Shaarj affliction will no longer be impossible to hit due to Dematerialize.